[#CONF-12520] Confluence 'Watch' Should be more clear

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Confluence 'Watch' Should be more clear

Created: 22/Jul/08 12:21 PM Updated: 17/Nov/08 12:31 PM

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CONF-4455 'Watch' icon on and off states are not clearly defined

Participants:	Bill Arconati [Atlassian], Bob Swift, Morgan Friberg [Atlassian] and Roy Krishna [Atlassian]
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I have a hard time telling when I am watching a page. The envelope image clicking back and forth between watch and not-watch should be more apparent. Maybe it is because I am color blind, but I think it should be more clear. Either do a completely different image, or make the colors contrast way more. Also, when clicking back and forth trying to figure out if I was watching or not - I didn't know what image indicated watch and which one didn't. Maybe the envelope, when clicked on, could change to say: 'Watching.'

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Roy Krishna [Atlassian] added a comment - 28/Aug/08 12:31 AM - edited

Rather than having different icons when you are watching a page it should say "Stop Watching".

This makes it more obvious that you are already watching the page and that you have the option to stop watching it. (just like JIRA does)

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Bill Arconati [Atlassian] added a comment - 05/Nov/08 01:13 PM

I agree. The language should change from "watch" to "stop watching" or "un-watch" or something similar. It's really hard to tell when you're watching a page.

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Bob Swift added a comment - 15/Nov/08 08:46 AM

On 2.8 and above, the menu no longer shows the hover text from on previous releases making this much less usable than before. The hover text use to show the stop or start watching. Changing the default menu text is the best option. However, it would also be a good idea to have the hover text for menu options brought back to provide additional help text - for example, what does watch mean.

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Morgan Friberg [Atlassian] added a comment - 17/Nov/08 12:31 PM

Yeah - I agree the hover text should say 'Start Watching' and 'Stop Watching.' I think that would be a very clear indication of action items one could take.